LEGO Serious Play is a facilitated process that combines the benefits of hand-brain coordination with specific business challenges and issues in a playful format using Lego bricks.
Serious Play is typically used in organizations and teams. Through its open and activating form, it promotes the emergence of creativity as well as new ideas and approaches to solutions. It also improves communication and thus accelerates any problem solutions, especially in the area of process innovations.
It is precisely the latter characteristic that makes serious play suitable not only for strategic development projects, but also in the context of change or team building.
In essence, the following aspects can be named as distinct advantages that arise in the course of serious play workshops.
1. Serious Play promotes creativity and innovation through the interaction of head and hands.
2. serious play significantly improves the communication and communication skills of the participants among themselves and with each other, since the technique of story telling to built solution models is an elementary part of the method.
3. involves the knowledge and experience of all participants in a workshop and brings them together in a format designed for appreciation and shared success.
4. a common understanding is created among all participants of a workshop (also with regard to certain metaphors), which in turn usually has positive effects on communication efficiency and team culture.
Particularly in digitization projects, it is often difficult to describe challenges or ideas in such a way that they are comprehensible to everyone involved. Lego Serious Play supports here through its visual power.
